Irrational Quotes
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There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.
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We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.
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Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.
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The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
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The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed by scientific investigation - but it's not irrational because it doesn't contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.
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People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image
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People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.
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Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.
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... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.
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A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.
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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
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Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
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A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.
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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
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The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.
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People are irrational and they need economists, with their open minds, to show them how to be rational and efficient.
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The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.
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North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy.
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Religion is an irrational construct.
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It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
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I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.
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Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
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I think life's an irrational obsession.
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Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.
